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60 stories for“sports”
Elite action sport, music and city culture converge in New Orleans, offering a test of whether event-led formats can turn casual attention into durable fandom.
Jul 24, 2026
The strongest legacy of global sport will be measured in active communities, local coaching, women’s participation and facilities people use every week.
Jul 28, 2026
Billions poured into golf, motorsport, boxing and tennis. As the numbers come due, the Gulf's sports strategy is quietly being rewritten.
Sep 10, 2025
The second-largest multi-sport event on Earth returns to Japan for the first time since Hiroshima in 1994. The ceremony is at Paloma Mizuho Stadium at six on Saturday evening. What is new, where the swimming is, and why the Gulf's squads matter this time.
Sep 15, 2026
A record-high bid score, five host cities and a 92,000-seat stadium. Saudi Arabia's World Cup win is one piece of a much bigger plan.
Mar 14, 2025
Padel's smaller court, doubles format and forgiving early rallies make it approachable, but smart beginners still need coaching, movement and patience.
Jul 28, 2026
Ten sports, existing venues and an indoor ceremony make Glasgow 2026 smaller by necessity, and perhaps a working model for an event that nearly lost its host.
Jul 23, 2026
FIFA has opened formal cases over post-final clashes, alleged misconduct and a political banner, beginning a process rather than issuing verdicts.
Jul 30, 2026
Scottie Scheffler, Justin Thomas and Wyndham Clark each helped secure a point in Thursday's four-ball matches, and debutant Jackson Koivun won on his first appearance, but Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim denied the Americans a clean sweep.
Sep 25, 2026
Jacob Misiorowski threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings, rookie Cooper Pratt set a Series mark with six straight hits, and Milwaukee ended a wait that began in 1969.
Oct 29, 2026
The tournament delivered crowds and global attention. Its lasting value will depend on transport, public space, community football and honest accounting.
Jul 28, 2026
Three times second, the Mallorcan inherited the red jersey when Tadej Pogačar crashed out on stage eight with a lead of nearly four minutes, then won on the Aitana the next day and held Primož Roglič at two minutes fifteen to Granada.
Sep 15, 2026
Nine Matchday 4 games tonight: Bayern at the Metropolitano, Manchester United winless in nine against Roma, PSG chasing a fourth straight win at Villarreal and Barcelona against perfect Aston Villa.
Nov 3, 2026
Chicago led by 13 twice, survived New England's late rallies and improved to 5-2 at Soldier Field, where Luther Burden III's 130 first-half yards and a Drake Maye interception shaped the night.
Oct 23, 2026
Spurs, bottom of the table and winless after six games, got goals from Maddison, Marmoush and a stoppage-time Davies finish, and 526 days later Kulusevski was back on the pitch.
Oct 20, 2026
Fourteen teams instead of twelve, a season running from 4 September to 23 May, and twenty-six league games where there were twenty-two. Growing a league is easier than filling it.
Aug 17, 2026
The Vuelta a Espana runs from 22 August to 13 September, 21 stages and 3,310 kilometres from Monaco to Granada. If you have never followed a grand tour, the thing to understand is that it is not really a race. It is twenty one of them.
Sep 2, 2026
Norris claimed his first victory of the 2026 Formula 1 season after a tense McLaren contest, traffic, strategy shifts and Oscar Piastri's late retirement.
Jul 28, 2026
Seattle held Patrick Mahomes without a red-zone trip, Atlanta forced four turnovers against San Francisco, and J.J. McCarthy won his first Giants start in overtime in Week 7.
Oct 26, 2026
Red Bull's first win of 2026 came in torrential rain in Malaysia, while Lewis Hamilton recovered from 18th to third and Kimi Antonelli stretched his title lead to 84 points with seven rounds left.
Oct 4, 2026
Baltimore trailed by eight with 2:25 left, tied it with a touchdown and a two-point run, and won on Huntley's overtime sneak before Kyle Hamilton picked off Atlanta's fill-in quarterback.
Oct 12, 2026
Twelve rounds into the most significant regulation change in a decade, the four time champion is more than a hundred points adrift and a driver in his second season leads by fifty. The war removed two races from the calendar as well.
Aug 24, 2026
A five-year deal for the man who replaced Christian Horner lands as Red Bull ends a winless start to its first season building its own engines.
Oct 14, 2026
Three nights in Budapest, no heats, prize money only. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the 100 and closed the meet with a world-leading 21.47, Kenny Bednarek beat Oblique Seville and won the 200, Duplantis cleared 6.20. Every winner, and what the format proved.
Sep 15, 2026
Josh Jacobs scored twice, Bryce Young was sacked six times and Green Bay moved to 5-3 at Lambeau, though Carolina scored the last ten points of a game that was once 17 apart.
Oct 30, 2026
Garner, Hackney and Barry scored at Hill Dickinson Stadium, while the on-loan winger was left out for a breach of club discipline, days before the two sides meet again in the league.
Oct 30, 2026
Davante Adams caught eight passes for 195 yards and two scores in the Monday Night Football win. New York's Jaxson Dart left with a left knee injury on the Giants' seventh offensive snap, and Jameis Winston could not close the gap in his place.
Sep 24, 2026
Josh Hazlewood took career-best figures on the final morning at Kingsmead after Matt Renshaw rescued Australia from 124 for 6, putting the tourists 1-0 up with two Tests left.
Oct 15, 2026
United's winless run reached eight games and left them one point above the bottom three, while Isak and a Wirtz-forced own goal sent Liverpool to fourth at Anfield on Sunday.
Oct 26, 2026
Milwaukee led from the first inning, then needed a video review and a final strikeout to hold off a late Tampa Bay rally in the opener of a series neither club has ever won.
Oct 24, 2026
An 18-year-old winger made two goals and a comeback at Anfield, while Paris beat Barcelona 4-2, Foden scored a hat trick for City and Napoli edged a seven-goal thriller.
Oct 21, 2026
The Frenchman attacked on the Civiglio and rode alone to a 48-second win over Enric Mas, ending Tadej Pogacar's five-year run in cycling's season-ending Monument.
Oct 10, 2026
Arsenal were heading for their first defeat in 14 league-phase games until Declan Rice finished late in Munich, though Bukayo Saka went off injured early and Kane kept his scoring run alive.
Oct 22, 2026
Milwaukee chased Yoshinobu Yamamoto early and now travels to Los Angeles with the series in hand, while Cleveland rallied from a 2-0 hole in Tampa to take the American League opener.
Oct 13, 2026
A goalless first half gave way to a Morgan Rogers opener, a Lisandro Martinez sending off and a Cole Palmer penalty, leaving United without a win in nine games and Michael Carrick under pressure.
Oct 31, 2026
Simone Biles returned, Noah Lyles ran the fastest hundred meters of his life, and the Seine became an Olympic stage. Paris delivered.
Aug 12, 2024
Bournemouth stayed perfect after Milan's goalkeeper was sent off, Crystal Palace twice came back in Turkey, and Leverkusen remained the only side yet to concede in the league phase.
Oct 23, 2026
Assefa won in a course-record 2:11:04 while on world-record pace for most of the race, Guye Adola took the men's title in 2:02:50, and Ethiopia swept both elite races on Sunday.
Sep 28, 2026
A day after the US took a narrow opening lead, Tom Kim, Si Woo Kim, Hideki Matsuyama and their teammates won all five Friday foursomes matches at Medinah, the format's second clean sweep by the Internationals in as many Presidents Cups.
Sep 26, 2026
A bench try from Shoshanah Seumanutafa with two minutes left turned a 14-5 half-time deficit into a famous win in front of 18,621 fans, a record for women's rugby in North America.
Oct 17, 2026
Los Angeles forced extra time with a touchdown on the last four seconds of regulation, then lost when Greg Rousseau blocked a kick and Buffalo's offence drove for the winning field goal.
Oct 13, 2026
Fofana's miss sent Liverpool through at Anfield, City needed spot-kicks against Brighton, and Fleetwood wait on Everton or Newcastle after knocking out Arsenal.
Oct 29, 2026
A broken radio, a Hamilton strategy error and a back-of-grid Russell shaped Marina Bay. Antonelli now needs only a sequence of results in Austin to clinch, though the AP calls that unlikely.
Oct 11, 2026
The 20-year-old Mercedes driver leads George Russell by 123 points with five races left and returns to the car for Friday practice after a viral illness kept him out of Thursday's media day.
Oct 30, 2026
Minnesota expects its star back this season after about two months out, while Memphis stayed unbeaten at 5-0 as Cameron Boozer posted a triple-double and Morant exited with a hamstring problem.
Oct 30, 2026
Chicago paid a 2027 and 2028 first plus a fourth for the 29-year-old defensive tackle, the first such price for his position since 1967, with the 5-2 Bears pushing for a title.
Oct 30, 2026
Jackson Chourio's two-out, two-strike single capped the biggest postseason comeback in Brewers history, while the Braves used a patchwork pitching plan to level their series against the Dodgers.
Oct 5, 2026
Mixed doubles is played over three days in the week before the singles begin, with sets to four games and a draw of sixteen. Year two adds qualifying, which is a quiet admission about year one.
Aug 16, 2026
Chicago improved to 6-2 at Lumen Field with three D'Andre Swift touchdown runs, a clean night from Caleb Williams and a sack from the newly acquired Jeffery Simmons.
Nov 3, 2026
Anthony Edwards hit nine threes, Giannis scored 35 in his Heat debut and Tyrese Haliburton returned after 486 days as the NBA's 2026-27 season opened with a tripleheader and an 11-game night.
Oct 22, 2026
A 1:16.514 in the final seconds of Q3 gave the 41-year-old his 105th pole and his first since 2023, while penalties for Verstappen and Lawson reshuffled the rows behind him before Sunday's decider.
Nov 1, 2026
Trailing 10.5-7.5 overnight, the United States took 9.5 points from a possible 12 in Sunday singles to beat the Internationals 17-13 at Medinah and claim an eleventh straight Presidents Cup.
Sep 29, 2026
The Premier League champions needed a first goal of the season from Viktor Gyokeres to level at Highbury Stadium, then lost the shootout after a late red card for Max Dowman.
Oct 28, 2026
Three goals in ten minutes at the Amex turned the M23 derby into a rout, and Brighton's goals tally now trails only Barcelona among Europe's big five leagues.
Oct 19, 2026
A two-run double, two home runs and Freddy Peralta's 5 1/3 innings put Tampa Bay into its third World Series, against a Milwaukee team that has never won one either.
Oct 20, 2026
Gio Lopez threw for 225 yards and Carlos Hernandez caught a 77-yard touchdown as Wake Forest, outgained in total offence, ran for 4.2 yards a carry and got a game-saving blocked kick to hand Louisville its first loss of the season.
Sep 27, 2026
Playing without Jayden Daniels and several other starters, Washington threw three touchdown passes through Marcus Mariota and returned a late interception for a score to beat the defending conference contenders 33-31.
Sep 29, 2026
Running back Lee Beebe rushed for 203 yards and a late touchdown as the fifth-ranked, defending national champion Hoosiers survived a fourth-quarter scare from an unranked Northwestern team that twice had a chance to tie.
Sep 26, 2026
A rainout pushed Game 4 to Saturday night, then Tampa Bay broke it open in the seventh and forced a Game 5 on Sunday with a World Series berth against Milwaukee at stake.
Oct 18, 2026
A rookie's go-ahead homer in the top of the 12th was erased by a throwing error, three singles and a pinch hitter, so Milwaukee leads 3-1 and Game 5 is Wednesday night.
Oct 28, 2026
